Senior External Reporting - Portland, United States - Ampere Computing

Description

Job Description

Job Description

The Role

We are looking for an External Reporting and Technical Accounting Senior Analyst to join our Accounting team. In this role, you'll become an accounting and disclosure subject matter expert and will keep up to date on various new and existing requirements and guidance. You will combine the responsibilities of technical accounting advisory and external reporting, helping to ensure that the company's public financial statements and other SEC filings are of the highest standards of quality, U.S. GAAP-compliant, and useful to management and the investing public.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing company and a great place to work.

What the Team Wants You to Know:

Finance at Ampere is dynamic, exciting, and fun. Our team prides ourselves on providing decision support and influence across the company as we invent the future of cloud computing. As a finance team we take pride in operating with integrity, supporting each other, taking risks, speaking up, and bringing continuous improvement and innovation to our processes and methods that matches the culture of Ampere. In finance at Ampere, we strive to create a great work environment where diversity and inclusion are valued, where people are empowered to make a difference, where we drive velocity in decision making and where people can realize their full potential.

What You'll Do:

• Project-manage quarterly and annual external reporting processes, review documents to ensure quality and consistency, and assist with drafting certain components

• Monitor, research, and interpret new and proposed accounting regulations and pronouncements to support key stakeholders in assessing financial, operational, and reporting implications; assist in implementation of solutions

• Aid in interpreting U.S. GAAP and SEC standards to determine the accounting and disclosure treatment for new, material, complex and/or unusual transactions or agreements

• Oversee suite of accounting policies and the related governance processes over policy review and maintenance; assist with developing and implementing policies where gaps exist

• Assist in preparing materials for presentations to management, disclosure and audit committees, and earnings releases

• Collaborate with finance and accounting leaders to deliver training on relevant accounting topics to company personnel

• Become proficient in external reporting system to coach team and other stakeholders on usage

• Identify process improvements and assist in the implementation of related processes and controls

• Perform all other relevant activities relating to job accountabilities as the need arises

This is a startup – be ready to tackle challenges as they arise and find solutions as our company scales. You are empowered to get work done and make Ampere better. Everyone on our team has a direct influence to make our company successful

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in public accounting, external/financial reporting, and/or technical accounting/accounting policy

• Strong attention to detail, critical thinking, and organizational and project management skills

• Effective written and oral communication skills: ability to document and communicate technical positions to both internal stakeholders and external auditors; ability to explain accounting and disclosure impacts to non-accounting teams

• Fluent in financial statements; understands P&L, BS, and CF implications of decisions

• Comfortable with systems, data, and reporting; NetSuite and/or Workiva experience a plus

• Experience in the semiconductor industry and/or publicly traded commercial company with consolidation a big plus

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business administration

• Certification/Licensure: CPA strongly preferred

Perks in Portland

• Walking distance of breweries, landscaped parks, art galleries, restaurants and shops

• Garage parking

• On-site bike parking and repair station

• Gym

• On-site café, bar, and market

• Roof top terrace with Willamette River views

• Healthy snacks, espresso and drinks

• Standing /Ergo friendly desk set-up

• Game room

• Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays

Pay and Benefits

Ampere offers a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus, stock, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $94,000 and $156,000. We also offer an annual bonus program tied to internal company goals and annual meritocratic stock awards that enable our employees to participate in the success of the company. Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life, with full benefits eligibility at 20 hours per week. Beyond compensation and benefits, our passionate teams thrive in an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more - all in service of inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We look forward to sharing more about our career opportunities through interviews.

Our Company

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world's first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.

Our Story

Like the scientist behind its name, Ampere employees are innovators. We understand the needs of cloud computing and different software requirements. We are inventing what comes next and looking at everything from the structure of memory and how efficient the system is, to considerations on speed, cost of electricity and ability to cool. Power, size, weight, and cost are driving the technology requirements and the innovation to come.

Our world class team of engineers, with depth and expertise in the cloud and semiconductor industries, is not only focused on the development of new semiconductor designs but also building out the first software ecosystem for Arm-based server processors. Through the Ampere approach to the cloud and edge, we give our customers the freedom to challenge the status quo and accelerate next-generation data centers for the most memory-intensive applications. Given the challenge we have outlined, we are building a culture of entrepreneurs that ensure customers come first, proactively approaching industry challenges in the areas of security, power, and performance, delivering results that matter most.

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